Bindler, Anna ORCID: 0000-0001-7585-0104 and Hjalmarsson, Randi
(2021).
The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime.
Journal of the European Economic Association JEEA, 19 (6).
3063 - 3104.
OXFORD:
OXFORD UNIV PRESS.
ISSN 1542-4774
Abstract
This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police-the first professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-in-differences and pre-post designs, we find evidence of a significant reduction in violent crimes (despite the possibility of offsetting increases in clearance and reporting rates). In contrast, a reduction in property crime is not visible.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-572428 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvab011 | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the European Economic Association JEEA | ||||||||||||
Volume: | 19 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | 3063 - 3104 | ||||||||||||
Date: | 2021 | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | ||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | OXFORD | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1542-4774 | ||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Center of Excellence C-SEB | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | Economics | ||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57242 |
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